Hi Ronni (and Rob) OK, I have restored an iPhone Library. All is not well. I have almost nothing from the past 3 months. I will have to give some background to explain the problem. I'm sorry if it takes a while.
At the beginning of May we went on a Kimberley cruise. I took many photos - about 1500. Before I left I backed up to an external disk, not my Time Machine disk. I can recover that, but it has nothing from May onwards. I downloaded all the shots when I returned and quite a few more since then. Altogether there should be about 1800 shots I estimate. I spent some time processing the Kimberley stuff into Albums, and shared some of these Albums through iTunes sharing to the big TV screen. About 500 shots. The last 3 months shots have been there on iPhoto all the time, up to this morning. As I explained in my original help request, when I tried to open it this morning I got the repairing Database message, ending with Cant find the disk. I have tried to recover data from backups. However, at some time after I returned in May my Time Machine stopped working and I neglected to do anything about it until one week ago. It has been working properly since then. Since August 1 the Time Machine backups have not backed up iPhoto. The upshot is that right now I can't access anything from May onwards except for some shots saved onto iCloud. Of course I expected that all my shots from May onwards would be on iCloud. There are 117 photos on iCloud from my expected about 1800. They are parts of events starting from the beginning of the Kimberley cruise and coming up to material from last Saturday week. I'm glad to have the 117, but what about the rest? I have just repaired my Database, but it didn't find any more shots. I have checked AppleTV. It has helpfully selected about 20 shots of the 500 I Shared and plays them when the main screen goes off. They are a good set. I would like to get them back, but I can't see any way to do that. Ronni, I hope you have some magic commands to find the shots which went missing, apparently this morning or perhaps earlier. Perhaps they were deleted. Is it possible to recover from iPhoto Trash? David On 06/08/2013, at 4:33 PM, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > I don't like to sound picky and disagree with you but your instructions to > David for Rebuilding the iPhoto 11 9.4.3 Library is incorrect. > > To rebuild the iPhoto library: > 1. Quit iPhoto if it is open. > 2. Hold down the 'Command and Option' keys on the keyboard. > 3. Open iPhoto. > 4. Keep the Option & Command keys held down until you are prompted to rebuild > the library. > 5. A dialog will appear with rebuild options. Select the options you want to > use. > 6. Click Rebuild to begin the rebuild process. This may take a few minutes to > complete. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > On 06/08/2013, at 3:32 PM, Rob Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi David >> >> If you hold down the option key when you launch iPhoto, you will get the >> 'rebuild' menu. Work thru the options one by one until it works again. >> >> Hope this helps. >> Rob >> >> PS Of course you've got a backup copy of your library.... >> >> On 6/08/13 3:11 PM, David Nicholas wrote: >>> Hello all >>> >>> I have had a strange problem today. When I opened iPhoto I had a message >>> that my Library needed to be repaired. Of course I accepted that and it >>> went ahead. But then I got a very disturbing message - Something like >>> Can't find the disk so can't save the Library. To the best of my knowledge >>> I hadn't made any changes since I last opened it two days before. >>> >>> Using my first line of defence, I rebooted. Now I had a friendly display >>> saying that to start using iPhoto I should put some photos in it. >>> >>> My iTunes, iPhoto and iMovie are stored on a separate Data disk as set up >>> by Daniel. According to Finder, I have 189.97 GB in the IPhoto Library >>> sitting there which was most recently modified when I recently rebooted the >>> machine. So it still exists, but whatever happened this morning has cut me >>> off from it. >>> >>> I have looked at various forums but can't see any solutions to my >>> particular problem. iTunes and iMovie are working quite normally. Can >>> anybody help me to reconnect iPhoto to its Library? >>> >>> David Nicholas >>> >>> iMac OS X 10.8.4 >>> 2 GHz Intel Core i7 >>> 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3 >>> >>> iPhoto 11 9.4.3 >>> iTunes 11.04 >>> iMovie 11 9.0.9 >>> >>> David Nicholas > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
